Aries said: Yeah, and Harry Potter is Satanic and the number 13 is unlucky.

The so-called epidemic is nothing more than greatly increased awareness of it. If someone points out how rude something is, you'll notice the world and its wife starts doing it. Besides, autism is something you're born with, it's not an afflicted illness.

I agree with the whole awareness point you make, Aries.  It's just like the arguments I have with people who insist that the world is about to end because it's more full of wars, epidemics, incidences of "sin" and fornication, crime waves, and natural disasters than in the old days.

Not true. The world has always had wars, epidemics, and so on and so forth.  The thing that has changed is that the flow of information is way faster than it is now; no one during the Black Death years had Internet access, much less TV, radio, newspapers, or even telegraphs to disseminate news from all around the globe.

ryan said: I just heard recently like a month ago autism is caused my some house hold cleaners. haha. They want to put a blame to everything, it's ridiculous. Don't cleaners have to be approved before they are sold?

thats so dumb house hold cleaners causing autism or TV, next they'll tell you cell phones and broccoli. I say live the natural way however way you like and if your meant to have a disease like autism or cancer, or somethings like that then you were meant to have it, you cant change faith

emo44 said:

thats so dumb house hold cleaners causing autism or TV, next they'll tell you cell phones and broccoli. I say live the natural way however way you like and if your meant to have a disease like autism or cancer, or somethings like that then you were meant to have it, you cant change faith